I am a smoker of the last 5 years, with intermittent breaks, meaning I have managed to quit almost cold turkey for up to and over a month. Various online resources reveal contrasting statistics claiming that it is roughly 28-60 days to create or break a habit of one form or another, so this is not exclusive to smoking. I have been very serious about my smoking addiction and have gone to extreme measures to counteract the effect, in relation to its causes on my health, lifestyle and image. I have no doubt that the iconography depicting smokers have both a severe impact on our social status (whether we choose to adopt this particular scene or not) let alone our self-esteem or ambitions in life. It was suggested in another article I found on the web that smokers are more likely to be on a lower-income or incestuous around covert issues. I think that smoking is nothing more than an addiction, I do believe that a person has personal power to quit, however rem...

I am disappointed to hear about people saying that they are in a process of ''reinventing themselves''... End of relationship, New Employment, New Years Eve, Summer season. Purely because during this transformation, in essence they could lose who they truly are. Besides, if we are supposed to love ourselves unconditionally, then why should we be attempting to alter parts of us that essentially generates who we already are? Individuals.  2009 Furthermore, I believe that we must be vigilant of what we feed our brains, not just by the products we purchase or the food we eat, the drugs we use or the people we meet, but in our private containment. The media which we digest and the company we hunt, moulds our very character from the inside-out.  2015 For example, there are certain developments during puberty. The nature or nurture debate springs up especially in concern for ages 0 - 12, alas the terrible teens as it were, would be arguably the cr...